Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.